548 BORRAGINEyE. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



5, M. refracta, Boiss. .05 to .25, hispid with spreading or 

 retrorse hairs, branciiing from neck and above. Leaves oblong-spath- 

 ulate to oblong and oblong-lanceolate, the lower short-petioled. Ra- 

 cemes naked, much elongated in fruit, flexuous, one-sided, loose; 

 pedicels much shorter than calyx, refracted and 2yyriform-chcb-sha2:)ed in 

 fruit; corolla .001 broad — Spring — Stony places; Alpine -and sub- 

 alpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, and Jebel-el-Duruz, to Cassius, Amanus, 

 Aintab, and northward. 



20. L-ITHOSPERmJItt, L. Gromwell. Puccoon. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped, with throat naked or 

 pervious, or furnished with velvety, longitudinal folds between the 

 stamens. Anthers included ; filaments very short. Nutlets triangular, 

 wrinkled-tubercled, or ovate, glabrous; areola flat, basilar — Herbs 

 or shrubs. 



* Annuals. Nutlets ovate-triquetrous, tuberded or intted-tubercled. 



1. Li. arvense, L. OhahasM. .2 to .4, appressed-strigulose, 

 green ; stems branching from base, erect or decumbent. Leaves obo- 

 vate to oblong, oblong-lanceolate, and linear, the lower tapering to a 

 petiole. Fruiting pedicels little thickened; corolla white, rarely bluish ; 

 nutlets pitted, acutely tubercled — Spring — Common everywhere. 



2. L*. ^ibthorpianum, Griseb. .2 to .3, appressed-strigu- 

 lose, canescent, prostrate, branching from base. Leaves narrow, lan- 

 ceolate. Fruiting pedicels very short, scarcely tMckened; corolla white, 

 rarely bluish ; nutlets pitted, acutely tubercled — Spring — Sheturah; 

 Cedars; Qaldun (Antilebanon). Hardly distinguishable from the last. 



3. L<. incrassatum, Guss. .2 to .4, appressed-strigulose, 

 green ; stems branching from base, erect or decumbent. Leaves obo- 

 vate to oblong and linear, the lower tapering to a petiole. Fruiting 

 pedicels thickened; corolla blue, rarely white ; nutlets pitted, slightly 

 tubercled — Spring — Subalpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, and Jebel-ed- 

 Duruz, and northward and eastward. 



4. L<. tenuiflorum, L. .1 to .5, strigulose-hispid, often 

 yellowish, branching from base. Leaves oblong-spathulate petioled, 

 to oblong-linear sessile. Pedicels very short, unchanged in fruit; co- 

 rolla blue, rarely white; nutlets .002 long, tubercled, not jntted, with 

 two lateral gibbi and a short beah — Spring — Jerusalem and coast, 

 to Coelesyria, Antilebanon, Damascus, Aleppo, Aintab, and northward. 



5. Li. Apuliiin, L. .2 to .3, hirsute with tubercled bristles; 

 stem rigid, rather simple. Leaves linear, 1-nerved, the radical some- 

 what spatMlate, the cauline stiff. Racemes somewhat corymbose, dense 

 in fruit, bracteate; corolla yellow; nutlets, glossy, tubercled, gibbous — 

 Spring — Aintab, and northward. 



* * Perennial herbs. Nutlets ovate, 'perfectly smooth, corolla p)laited within. 



6. L<. purpureo-caeruleiiin, L. If .5 to .6, appressed hir- 

 sute, with creeping root-stock, and erect stalks, 2-3-forked at apex. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, tapering at base. Calyx-lobes long- 

 tapering, linear; covoW^i purple, .015 long, .01 broad; nutlets white, 

 .0035 long, .0025 broad, glossy — Summer — Amanus, and northward. 



